There are a lot of people these days willing to make money and foward industrializtion with little respect towards the enviroment and ecology. Please share stories of conservation happening in your area.

Fellow TU members and volunteers,
The next Chapter meeting is at 7 PM on Wednesday, March 18th at The Brick in Roslyn, WA. We meet in the downstairs family section, so all ages are welcome. Spend a day fishing in the area, then join us for food & drinks and a full agenda for the evening.
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Gill lice in a Wisconsin brook trout. Photo courtesy of Wisconsin Trout Unlimited.
By Jack Williams
In Wisconsin, Department of Natural Resources staff are finding increasing rates of gill lice parasitism in brook trout as waters warm. In North Carolina, the same gill lice have been found for the... [ READ MORE... ]

By Kevin Terry
Most avid anglers in Colorado have some degree of experience with reservoir operations and how they can make or break a good day on the river. On one hand, we often rely on tailwaters to keep us from getting remote-control thumb and vice neck during long winters. On the other, we... [ READ MORE... ]

Logging in southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest made news again this week when Sen. Lisa Murkowski questioned Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell about why he isn’t doing more to boost timber harvesting in the 17-million-acre rain forest.
Despite fisheries and tourism serving as the centerpiece... [ READ MORE... ]

by Randy Scholfield
Snow flurries began to whirl out of a steel-gray sky, and temperatures plummeted. But the crowd of hunters and anglers gathered on the steps of the state Capitol in Denver was just getting warmed up.
"Hands off our public lands!" a speaker shouted. The group roared its approval... [ READ MORE... ]

One of the biggest issues we've identified in the Headwaters, as well as across the basin, is access - keeping and improving what we have, restoring access that's been taken away, and establishing a common-sense set of guidelines to ensure that we have a consistent approach to the public's right to... [ READ MORE... ]

When traveling around northern Nevada it’s not uncommon to see the bumper sticker: IF IT DOESN’T GROW, IT HAS TO BE MINED. It’s probably the same thing in mining communities everywhere. And while it’s just a bumper sticker, it can be thought provoking.
When you consider everything you use during... [ READ MORE... ]

By Shauna Sherard
I think this is what they call a teachable moment. Or a learning moment. Perhaps a moment to reflect, or even all of the above.
Last week we posted a photo--the wrong photo--of a large steelhead being held out of water.
It was a repost of a story about fishing being on fire on... [ READ MORE... ]

Lauren McGarvey displays a large cutthroat trout collected during a summer she spent working at Yellowstone National Park. Volunteering with Trout Unlimited helped stir her passion for trout.
By Lauren McGarvey
Two summers ago I began a remarkable experience that has greatly impacted me. As a... [ READ MORE... ]

By Jeff Barney and Jerry Schoen
There are a lot of good reasons to pay attention to what’s hatching. No. 1, of course, is to match the hatch and hopefully catch more fish.
There are also the little things we pick up, almost without noticing, as we watch newly emerged specimens of different species... [ READ MORE... ]